Farah Ali

Biography

Farah Ali is from Pakistan. She is the writer of the short-story collection People Want to Live (McSweeney’s, 2021). Her work has been anthologized in the 2020 Pushcart Prize and Best Small Fictions 2022. Her stories have appeared in Shenandoah, the Arkansas International, the Southern Review, Kenyon Review online, Copper Nickel, Ecotone, the Colorado Review, and elsewhere.

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FICTION / Winter 2022

A Sequence of Small and Big Events

By Farah Ali ,  Illustration by Wesley Allsbrook

Sometime before I turned twenty, I was saved twice from dying. Neither time was by my design or choice.

Illustration by Wesley Allsbrook